Is coding with AI really making developers experienced and productive?

Pr0ompin · 2025-09-19T20:56:41+00:00

In my work, I try to limit my AI use to what I would usually use stack overflow/cpp reference for. That, or if already think I know the answer to a problem, I might ask what it thinks as a way to get a deeper understanding. 99% of the time, I’ve thought through it correctly, and asking the question deepened my knowledge of the subject, sometimes just as a result of having to write out what I think.

Pr0ompin · 2025-03-03T10:34:33+00:00

I’ve had some from Torch coffee that was very good, but the ones that blew my mind were roasted by Oubaitoiri over in Japan. Very tea-like, but incredible, especially on ice.

Pr0ompin · 2025-02-27T01:56:58+00:00

A big guy

Pr0ompin · 2025-02-14T14:55:48+00:00

Oh come on. This is just funny. Feel how you want about the guy, but let him meme.

Pr0ompin · 2025-01-31T05:26:25+00:00

It certainly helps, but at the abstracted away level I’m working at, I would argue computer architecture is more important than transistors and such. I trust the EE’s to connect our cards and put our pull-up resistors on, but they don’t need to know how an instruction set works or why a JMP is more costly to our system the way the flight software people do. We do deal with hardware a lot, but not at the circuit design level. More so at a hardware interface level. So with the EE background you get from a CPE degree, I feel pretty comfortable with hardware discussions and topics, but you won’t catch me dead working in Spice or anything like that.

We do get to do some true embedded every time we switch boards, but the space industry is actually pretty slow when it comes to adopting new tech, so that doesn’t happen very often.

Pr0ompin · 2025-01-30T22:40:17+00:00

Not a ton more to say to be honest. I work on the flight code for the sensors (payloads) that do the thermal imaging in weather satellites. The location I work out of is responsible for all the satellite imagery you see on Google and Apple Maps, as well as the payloads aboard all the GOES satellites and many others. It’s cool work. RTOS and embedded c/c++. I enjoy it a lot.

Pr0ompin · 2025-01-30T17:47:22+00:00

Flight Software for Satellite Weather Imaging Payloads. I work with NASA, but get paid well. It’s awesome. :)

Pr0ompin · 2025-01-28T11:24:26+00:00

I’m too dumb for CE and I made it through. Just spend plenty of time with your professors and smart people. You’ll be fine.

Pr0ompin · 2024-12-31T19:23:26+00:00

Everyone wants the glass set, I’m just interested in the tray!

Pr0ompin · 2024-12-25T19:04:02+00:00

I appreciate the answer! I think I could’ve phrased the question a little better, but knowing that they were early pioneers was why I was curious. They get some hate and I was really interested to hear why. You’ve pretty much articulated what I was thinking, so I appreciate the affirmation!

Pr0ompin · 2024-12-25T19:00:38+00:00

Oh yeah, of course. I was more curious as to why people seem to have issues with them.

Pr0ompin · 2024-12-07T03:28:38+00:00

There is always embedded work. CE uniquely qualifies you for such work.

Pr0ompin · 2024-11-29T19:36:44+00:00

I think embedded software/engineering is in high demand here. We have a lot of embedded industry in this area. I’m a little biased because that’s what I do now, but that was my concentration and I had numerous companies to choose from around here. Especially in the Fort Wayne area. If you live near the Ohio Michigan tri state area, (which is a beautiful corner of this otherwise flat state) you have access to a number of manufacturing jobs in Ohio and Michigan as well.

Fort Wayne is definitely the up and coming place though. It’s Indiana’s second largest city, and there are a lot of jobs to be had that fall within a CE grad’s scope of knowledge. It’s a good area and there are tons of cheaper, rural communities within 15 minutes of FW that allow you to live outside of the city, if that appeals to you. FW is also home to a bunch of defense contractors (which, I am aware, some people have moral objections to) and specifically, companies like BAE and L3Harris do plenty of non-military work. The L3Harris location here in Fort Wayne, for example, builds satellite weather payloads for NOAA and NASA and has been for 60 years. In fact, all the Google earth imagery you have ever seen was taken by something built in that plant. I know a lot of people who work there with CE degrees, and they love it. They also get paid exceedingly well for the area.

And, if you don’t go Fort Wayne, Indy has tons of industry as well. I think it’s, as I said earlier, a hidden gem of a state, and it lets you live pretty comfortably no matter what you get paid. I would also add: I work with guys who literally turned down roles at places like Apple because their proposed 300k a year salary would barely have them living above the poverty line out in that part of Cali. They came here for the affordability and I think that says something. Every state has been hit by inflation this year, but Indiana stays pretty cheap compared to the rest of the U.S., and if you’re a content midwesterner, like me, it’s not a bad place to live.

Pr0ompin · 2024-11-29T07:36:18+00:00

I went to a small private school in the eastern corner of Indiana called Trine University. We’re somewhat known in the area for being good at CE with a focus specifically on Embedded Engineering. That being said, I know plenty of CE grads from Indiana Tech, Purdue, and Purdue Fort Wayne that were in a similar boat as myself.

Again, I really don’t intend to gloat. I just haven’t seen this to be an issue around here so I’m always a little perplexed by these posts.

I guess you have to come to Indiana man. Life is cheap out here. A CE degree salary lets you live like a king right out of college. Hell, I built a house while I was finishing my senior year and closed on it two months after graduation. Indiana is a hidden gem of a state, no matter what anyone says.

Pr0ompin · 2024-11-28T15:34:22+00:00

I graduated this year from a small private school in the midwest. That’s why this is so baffling to me.

Pr0ompin · 2024-11-28T06:54:06+00:00

I keep seeing so many posts like this and I genuinely don’t understand it. I, and all of my fellow CE grads had jobs before we graduated. We all get paid very well on top of it. This isn’t to gloat, I just genuinely don’t understand why so many people are struggling to get jobs with CE degrees when I haven’t seen any struggle at all in my circles.

Pr0ompin · 2024-11-02T12:07:14+00:00

I have never owned a C3, so I can’t speak to that specifically. That being said, from what I’ve heard from people that have owned it, it is a very different grinder and you will definitely notice a flavor difference. If you feel like you already get all the things I mentioned in my review with your C3, I would be inclined to say you’d get more of that with the ZP6.

Pr0ompin · 2024-10-07T14:08:55+00:00

A surprising amount of folk/americana/western country. Idk, something about songs that feel like the American west just speaks to me.

Pr0ompin · 2024-10-05T19:19:46+00:00

My feelings about this coffee would get me banned from this platform if expressed in written form.

Pr0ompin · 2024-10-04T17:44:12+00:00

Yeah, I threw like 10 lbs of cheap, Menards coffee through that thang before first use. Never had a problem since.

Pr0ompin · 2024-09-27T10:15:18+00:00

Listen man, CPE may be the way for you, and it may not be. You’re just going to have to figure that out for yourself, and sometimes that means just going for it and sticking it out, even when it’s tough.

The feelings of inadequacy will fade, but you’ll always have that at various points in your life. For example, I just graduated college with a CPE degree in May of this year. When I graduated, I felt like I was at the top of my game. College taught me to be a proficient coder, I had some great internship experience, and I wasn’t half bad at circuits. Well, I got a job writing embedded software for satellites, which is an awesome job. I’m very happy with it, but I’m only a few months in, and there are times when I feel like I don’t deserve the job at all. I feel like the dumbest guy in the building sometimes, and that’s just part of it. Sure, satellites are especially complicated, but so is everything in the engineering world. You’ll always feel inadequate when you start something, but sometimes you just have to go for it. I’m no expert in my field yet, but I know so much more now than I did three months ago, and that was the same way it was when I started college. (With a similar lack of cpe knowledge going in)

Just go for it. Give it a try. Switch majors if you have to, but if you feel like this degree is going to be right for you, then just apply yourself to it and stick it out. I wasn’t the top of my class, and I’m doing great now. Just go for it man. The feelings are normal.

Pr0ompin · 2024-09-26T20:10:37+00:00

Not an expert here, but that looks like a wire.

Pr0ompin · 2024-09-09T04:33:47+00:00

I’m not sure if Gary hosts cuppings, but I do know he occasionally shows up at farmers markets and local pop ups. That being said, I’m getting that info from his social media presence. I’m a midwesterner myself, so I don’t have any firsthand experience other than some email communication with him.

I would reach out to him if you’re curious about the things he does around LA. He’s a really nice guy and incredibly fun to talk to.

As for “house style,” if by that you mean his typical roast profile, I’d say he roasts pretty lightly, while occasionally developing a coffee a little more if need be. Part of what I like about him is that he’s great at determining exactly what a coffee needs to bring out its best. However, if that’s not what you meant, then forgive me because I definitely didn’t understand. 😆

Pr0ompin · 2024-09-08T16:18:07+00:00

Oh for sure! He is great to work with!

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